Krush Groovin', Body Movin': Krush Groove screening/live talkback at SteelStacks

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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show

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that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop

with the magic of movies.

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On today's episode, we present our live

talkback at SteelStacks

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after our screening of the 1985

classic Krush Groove starring Run-D.M.C..

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Blair Underwood and a cast of thousands.

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We want to thank Anthony Desanctis

at ArtsQuest and our man, DJ ARM 18,

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Andrew MacIntosh, for helping us launch

this series.

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We’re three old heads

who to put their old heads together

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to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster,

filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan.

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And the last time I saw the Beastie

Boys was with A Tribe Called Quest

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and Money Mark in 1998

at Continental Airlines Arena.

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I’m JB.

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80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, longtime

hip hop fan, and one of my greatest

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and silliest childhood memories involves

me and my two friends

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constantly shouting lyrics to “You

Be Illin’”

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while we traipsed

through the Philadelphia Zoo.

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No joke.

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I’d pay to see that.

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Bring it! Come on.

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I’m BooGie, a deejay, longtime

hip hop fan.

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And I grew up in this movie and it’s

remained one of my all time favorites.

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I still own

the original soundtrack on wax.

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And now our live talkback on Krush Groove.

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Yeah.

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Krush Groove, baby.

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All right,

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so thanks for, thanks for watching.

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Yeah.

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Who here is seen this for the first time

just now?

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Okay, okay.

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Nice. Nice, nice.

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We, have a couple of fun facts

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and then some trivia questions throughout

so you can win a couple prizes.

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as you saw in the movie, Run.

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And actually, in real life, Run

and Russell Simmons are brothers, right?

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You guys knew that right?

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And their father

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was actually in the movie

playing the reverend in real.

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The father, real life Daniel Simmons.

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Yes. And actually, this is the story.

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Krush

Groove is a fictional record company,

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but really, it mirrors the story

of the beginnings of Def Jam Records,

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which was founded by Russell

Simmons and Rick Rubin.

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Russell Simmons had a small cameo in here

as, like, the owner of the club.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Russell Simmons was the, Crockett

who was the manager of the club

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where they were trying to get, Well,

actually, Warren, do you see where she.

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Berkeley out?

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The guy that was trying that was looking

for Run-DMC to come out and perform,

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that was actually Russell

Simmons playing a small cameo.

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And he, along with Rick

Rubin, Rick Rubin was it was,

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you know, running

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the, Krush Groove records

for the most part.

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So I'll pause here and do one quick

trivia question.

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Does anybody know the three full names

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of, three born names

of the members of Run-D.M.C.?

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Raise your hand.

We'll run a mic up to you.

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Only two?

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Who who knows all three?

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I don't know the last.

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That's the toughest one.

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I think it says.

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And you know, Russell

Simmons was not actually in the crew.

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Does anybody know Jam Master

Jay's last name?

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I think that's the stumper.

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Okay. The late Jam Master Jay.

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All right, I'll give you that one.

We have some more questions.

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it is Joseph Simmons.

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You know, Darryl McDaniels. Was.

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And Jason Mizell, the late Jason Mizell.

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Jason Mizell. Yep.

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Alright so the next

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topic I want to talk about is the director

behind the scenes here, Michael Schultz.

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Does everybody know Michael Schultz?

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What he's known for? Okay.

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So Michael Schultz, director

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he also directed a lot of very famous

films.

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I'm just going to mention

a few: Cooley High, the Last Dragon

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Car Wash, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

Hearts Club Band,

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and Disorderlies,

which featured The Fat Boys and we.

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We did a podcast episode on Disorderlies.

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Maybe one day

we'll have a screening of that as well.

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Another fun fact is that

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Michael Schultz’s first film

that he directed was also Samuel L

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Jackson's first film from 1972,

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called Together for Days.

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Michael Schultz is 85 years old.

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and according to New York Times,

he may be the longest

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working Black director in history,

so it's pretty impressive.

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Yeah.

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All right,

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so next trivia question might be tougher

if you didn't know the three.

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Run-D.M.C..

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Anybody know the names

of the three members of the Fat Boys?

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And they did actually start

as the Disco 3 in real life.

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And they did change to Fat Boys.

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Three full names of the Fat Boys.

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Anybody?

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Getting progressively harder.

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Cue in the Jeopardy!

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music.

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Anybody know one name?

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Prince Markie Dee is one.

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Can anybody name one?

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If anybody name one other one, you can win

the prize.

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Buff was like a nickname, right?

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But, the actual names are Darren

Robinson and Damon Wimbley.

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Okay, so it's a tough one.

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Mark Morales.

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so I'm going to I'll kick it over

to, to BooGie a little bit too.

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So there are a lot of hip hop stars.

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Let's talk about some of the hip hop stars

and hip hop adjacent stars

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that were in the movie.

So I'll name a few.

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You can run some with a few, but yeah.

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Kick it off. I so

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you saw Rick

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Rubin,

who's, who's known for producing and

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he produced Run-DMC,

he founded the Beastie Boys.

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He's worked with acts like Metallica,

Lady Gaga, tons of different.

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He's the man. Yeah.

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well-respected.

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LL Cool J.

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A very young LL Cool J.

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Back in the background, like.

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Yeah. Yeah. So he was

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Chris Rock

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Was Chris Rock?

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I didn't notice Chris Rock.

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Chris Rock in the background

when they're having a fight.

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Oh, wow.

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I gotta check that, Check that out.

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LL Cool J was 17 years old in this film,

which is crazy.

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So to me, this is like a time capsule.

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As a hip hop fan, it's like, wow,

I can't believe they put this on film.

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Fat Boys, Run-D.M.C., obviously.

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Sheila E, New Edition.

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You want to talk about

the members of New Edition?

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So New Edition.

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Yeah, those they had their their shiny

suits on. Ronnie.

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But Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike and Ralph.

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yeah.

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So New Edition, very talented

boy band from Boston.

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they laid the template

for what would become N’Sync,

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the New Kids on the Block,

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Backstreet Boys, etc.

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but, I love New Edition

because they're such a talented group.

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With you, I always say this is like

one of the things that I would say,

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like,

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there was a big thing called Verzuz when,

you know,

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they were put one group

against another group,

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like New Edition

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is probably one of the only bands

they could do a Verzuz against themselves.

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Yeah. Ralph Tresvant had a solo career.

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Bobby Brown had a solo career.

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We had Bell Biv DeVoe,

they had their own group as a collective.

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Then you have New Edition as a whole.

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Then you throw in Johnny Gill,

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who came in later

and he had his a flourishing solo career.

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So like that was a little snippet

to see New Edition back in the early days.

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And they formed in Boston, Maurice Starr

was the producer behind that.

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He also produced New Kids on the Block,

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etc..

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Doctor Jekyll and Mr.

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Hyde. Who was behind that?

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Yeah, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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the gentleman that you see bouncing around

in the suits with the ties on.

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They were very talented

rap duo, short lived, but very talented.

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They got a couple hits out

from back in the day.

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The gentlemen of, the group

who had the yellow tie,

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Andre Harrell,

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who went on to found Uptown Records,

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very, very big in the New Jack Swing era.

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mentor

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to a well, mentor to Puff

Daddy, who's very famous right now.

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Diddy Bop.

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For unsavory reasons.

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We're not going to go too far

down that rabbit hole.

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But he actually jumpstarted his career

as well.

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Yeah.

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And then Russell Simmons himself

has to cameo, as we mentioned already.

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And then Donnie Simpson.

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Oh, Donnie

Simpson, Donnie Simpson was the, MC

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of the Tin Pan Apple, talent show.

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Donnie Simpson went on to,

get picked up by BET

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for a long run of Video Soul,

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one of the longest running, video

shows on BET

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at that time, and it was good to see him

in there as well.

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Yeah.

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All right,

time for our next trivia question.

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So we see Sheila

E prominently in the film.

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She hit number seven on the US

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Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1984.

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Does anybody know what that big song was?

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You got it: The Glamorous Life.

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Give that man a prize. Yeah.

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You want to them.

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You want to run in run of the press.

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Oh, there's my alarm. Oh.

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That's the alarm that goes off

when it's time to record the podcast.

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Here's the bonus question.

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Does anybody know what the E stands for in

Sheila E.

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Hey. Ed’s got it.

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(Escovedo) There you go. That is correct.

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With that bonus information.

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I guess.

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Question was,

why Jekyll and Hyde don't rap in the.

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movie? Something

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that they were actually on

on Rush's on Rush's, management.

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Honestly, I'm not really sure

I can actually look that up.

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I'm not sure.

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You know?

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So always wanted.

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And the last topic

is the soundtrack itself.

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There was a lot of songs in here

that, stand out.

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You saw

if I Ruled the World by Kurtis Blow

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and, DJ ARM reminding me that actually was

originally a James Brown song.

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And the younger folks or

the generation behind us know it from Nas.

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He did a version of If I Ruled the World.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, classic with Lauryn Hill.

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Yeah, She's On It by the Beastie Boys.

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That song was produced

just for this movie.

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That's not on License to Ill.

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That was like a single,

that that was produced,

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Tender Love by Force MDs, this classic.

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Classic.

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One of the great slow

jams of all time. Yes.

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LL Cool.

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J, I Can't Live Without My Radio.

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And this, right here,

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that that was produced

just for this as well.

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Yeah.

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And the Fat Boys had a few, few songs.

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All You Can Eat was actually. So.

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Yeah. All You Can Eat, I love this song.

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Sheila E had, Holly Rock.

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Krush Groovin’ was by the Fat Boys.

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The the end credit there and Love Triangle

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when there was the love triangle type

scene that’s the Gap Band.

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Yes, those are some of the key ones.

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There's a few others,

but yeah. Great soundtrack.

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Very good song.

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You owned it, right?

I still do. I still have it on wax.

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Still got it from when it first came out.

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The DJ has it on wax.

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I got one more trivia to give out here.

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Can anybody give me the full names

of all three of the Beastie Boys?

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Full names who?

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No sleep till Brooklyn.

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I'll give you a hint.

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Two of them had the same first name.

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There was only one Mike.

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That's right. Yeah.

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Adam Horovitz?

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That's one.

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Yeah.

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Yes. Another one.

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Anybody give all three?

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There it is.

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There it is. Yeah.

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So does Joey get it? Young buck gets it.

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All right young buck Joe. You get it.

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All right. J-Prince gets it! It.

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It was Michael Diamond, Adam Horowitz

and Adam Yauch, the late Adam Yauch.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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that will do it. Thank you all for coming.

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Appreciate the support.

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I hope you enjoyed the show. Yes, yes.

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just one quick thing.

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I'd be remiss

if I didn't mention two things coming up.

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One, coming up soon.

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Here's a way to remember the months

that start with A and the number 16.

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So April 16th,

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Chuck D,

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will be at Northampton Community College,

the legendary frontman of Public Enemy.

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DJ ARM 18, Andrew

McIntosh will be hosting the discussion.

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Again, free tickets available at

Northampton Community College's website.

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You won't want to miss it.

It's a hot ticket.

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Come out for that to support.

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And then our next event here

is not until August

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16th and we will be showing House Party,

the classic House Party.

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Classic Kid N Play.

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We want to pack it

and have a full house party.

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So spread the word. Yes.

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And tell your friends and family.

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Tell your friends and family.

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Unfortunately, I think the budget

may be out for the free shows.

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That might be a ticketed price,

but it'll be well worth it.

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Want to make a real house party.

A nominal fee.

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Nominal fee.

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All right, everybody, get home safe.

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Thank you.

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Thanks for coming out.

Get home safe. God bless.

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Bring it!

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Come on!

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Hip Hop Movie Club is produced by your

HH emcees, JB, BooGie and DynoWright.

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Theme music by BooGie.

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Follow us on Instagram

@HipHopMovieClub and again

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come out to a conversation with Chuck D

on April 16th at the Spartan Center,

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at the Bethlehem campus of Northaampton

Community College.

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We'll be there. Come out and hang with us.

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Get your free tickets

for that at Northampton.edu.

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Whether you're listening to the podcast

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we appreciate you.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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